Art Direction & Design
Caitlyn Grabenstein (@cult.class) is a renowned collage artist recognized for her signature style of photorealistic and surreal digital art. With over 660,000 followers on Instagram and 50,000 on Facebook, her work has captivated a global audience. Caitlyn’s art has been commissioned by major brands including Netflix, Adobe, Porsche, Sony Music, and Unilever, and has been featured by Poosh, Goop, Vogue, Warner Brothers, WIRED Magazine, Thrillist, Glamour, and more. Her innovative designs blend retro aesthetics, sci-fi elements, and vivid imagination, earning her widespread acclaim in both commercial and fine art spaces.
In 2025, Caitlyn published her debut sci-fi thriller One Red Arrow, Part I, which reached the Top 100 Conspiracy Thrillers on Amazon and hit #1 in Superhero Fantasy (Kindle Free Store).
Beyond her art and writing, Caitlyn is also a professional artist, designer, and digital marketer based out of the Hartford, Connecticut area. In 2019, she founded CLG Design Co., offering comprehensive art direction, design, and marketing services. Since then, she has personally worked on over 150 freelance art, design, website, and social media projects, serving clients such as Netflix, Adobe Creative Cloud, Warner Bros., Unilever, Porsche, Sony Music, and Universal Music Group.
Earlier in her career, Caitlyn worked full-time as a certified SharePoint designer and website developer for a government contractor with over $40 million in revenue, where she led a full-scale website redesign, SEO optimization, and analytics implementation. From 2014–2016, she worked at Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) on Music Row in Nashville, rising to the role of Senior Business Affairs Coordinator in the Legal Department.
Her entrepreneurial work began with BANDADE, a charitable music business she founded in 2013. Through BANDADE, she worked with artists such as The Goo Goo Dolls, Imagine Dragons, Jason Isbell, Maren Morris, Ingrid Michaelson, Alabama Shakes, and Florence Welch. The project ultimately hosted over 50 charity shows featuring 60+ artists, raising thousands for cancer research and building a social following of over 10,000.
Caitlyn graduated in 2008 with a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. Today, she continues to combine her artistic vision and marketing expertise to create work that connects communities, inspires collectors, and builds brands across industries.
